Written by Tim Graham
Anyone who thinks the First Amendment is best represented by the “news” media is not paying attention to the way they wage war on freedom of speech for the conservative “rabble” on social media platforms.
Imagine if the media had attacked new media owners Jeff Bezos or David Zaslav with the kind of venom that they’re using on Twitter owner Elon Musk. No one would suggest it’s important for the government to monitor The Washington Post or CNN as potential sources of misinformation.… Continue Reading
Tags: Andrea Shalal, Center for Countering Digital Hate, CNN, David Zaslav, Donald Trump, Elon Musk, First Amendment, GLAAD, Hunter Biden, Jeff Bezos, Karine Jean-Pierre, Rupert Murdoch, The Washington Post, Twitter
Media Watch | David E. Smith | 
November 30, 2022 8:00 AM | 
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Today has become known as “Giving Tuesday,” a day when charities ask you to consider helping fund their worthwhile efforts.
Since 2010, Illinois Family Action (IFA) has been a bold voice for the sanctity of life, religious liberty, education choice and other family issues. Specifically, we’ve worked diligently in the political arena to help elect the best pro-family candidates for state and federal office. As a result, we’ve seen dozens of RINOs retired.
These core beliefs are some of the key building blocks behind what we do, but they aren’t just things we’ve decided on a whim.… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
When my wife and I were in Colonial Williamsburg several years ago, we talked briefly to a store clerk about an unwanted change – the passing of a longtime pharmacy in the Market Square area near the William & Mary campus.
The pharmacy had an old-fashioned lunch counter that served up the best milkshakes and limeades we had ever tasted. Now it was gone.
As we lamented its replacement by a chain store, the clerk stiffened her spine and barked, “Change is good!”… Continue Reading
Tags: Boy Scouts, Country, Country Extra, Country Woman, DeWitt and Lila Bell Wallace, Disney, Elizabeth Bartholomew, Farm & Ranch, Great American Family, Hallmark, Jason Buhrmester, New York Times, Playboy, Reader’s Digest, Reiman Publications, Reminisce, Siege: An American Tragedy, Trusted Media Brands, War on Books
Media Watch | David E. Smith | 8:05 AM | Comments Off on When Old Friends Like Reader’s Digest Go Off The Rails
Written by Brian Wencel
For the second time in the last two months, a statue of Abraham Lincoln in Edgewater’s Senn Park in Chicago has been vandalized by a group of unruly leftist activists. It’s par for the course for activists to go around vandalizing monuments during their little temper tantrums, but a statue of Abraham Lincoln? What could someone possibly have against Abraham Lincoln? Didn’t he play a major role in ending slavery and bringing our nation back together, a feat that should easily give him the status of “hero?”… Continue Reading
Written by Robert Knight
We’ve had a very serious setback this last week in the cause of freedom, courtesy of a dozen “woke” Republican senators. But first, we’ll begin with a bit of pop culture that speaks to where we are as a nation.
Sad to say, Mariah Carey won’t be able to trademark “Queen of Christmas.” Yes, in time, we will get over this.
The ubiquitous songbird, whose “All I Want for Christmas Is You” is piped everywhere, tried to monopolize the title legally.… Continue Reading
Tags: ACLU, Andy Williams, Bing Crosby, Chuck Schumer, Cynthia Lummis, Dan Sullivan, Defense of Marriage Act, Elizabeth Chan, H.R. 8404, Joni Ernst, Lisa Murkowski, Louis W. Tompros, Loving v. Virginia, Lucy Van Pelt, Mariah Carey, Merrick Garland, Mitt Romney, Nat King Cole, Obergefell v. Hodges, Queen of Christmas, Respect for Marriage Act, Richard Burr, Rob Portman, Roy Blunt, Shelley Moore, Susan Collins, Thom Tillis, Todd Young, U.S. Patent and Trademark Office
Marriage, Family & Culture | David E. Smith | November 21, 2022 7:00 AM | Comments Off on Christmas Queens And The Oxymoronically Named Respect For Marriage Act
Written by Daniel Horowitz
Imagine how amazing things could have been had we woken up last Wednesday morning with Republicans winning 54 seats in the Senate and 250 seats in the House. We’d be off to the promised land, right? Wrong! Actually, from a policy perspective, we’d be in the same place we are today, sans the much-needed introspection that is taking place deep in the souls of conservative politicos – an introspection we’ve needed for decades.… Continue Reading
Written by David E. Smith
The hope in a “Red Wave” election didn’t come to fruition in November. The work to flip the U.S. House and U.S. Senate to Republican control produced mixed results.
The GOP barely gained control of the U.S. House, which means Nancy Pelosi will no longer be the Speaker of the U.S. House, and third in line to the presidency.
Of our state’s 17 Congressional seats, three downstate districts have Republican representation, as we lost one to redistricting and one to a Democrat candidate in the newly redrawn 13th district in central Illinois.… Continue Reading
Tags: Amendment 1, Bill Brady, Bob Dold, Bruce Rauner, Chicago Sun-Times, Cindy Bailey, Darren Bailey, Democratic Party, Illinois General Assembly, Illinois Republican Party, JB Pritzker, Jim Durkin, Jim Edgar, Kirk Dillard, Leslie Munger, Liberal media, Mark Kirk, Nancy Pelosi, Parental Notice of Abortion Act, Peter Roskam, RINO, Ronald Reagan, Worker's Right
Illinois Politics | David E. Smith | 6:00 AM | Comments Off on Election 2022 Recap
